What they remember....

Isn't it odd what toddlers remember? I guess I'd remember more too if I was having daily naps and sleeping for 10 hours every night. Anyway, Paige said these 4 things yesterday:

1. "Mike is Daddy's friend" (just blurted this out as we were driving in the car. She met Mike's friend Mike about 3 weeks ago or so and talks about him every so often, even this morning in her highchair)

2. While we were at the pool we ran into some people from our Thursday playgroup. When they left I told her to say bye to the little girl. At home during lunch she says randomly, "Bye Ruby!"

3. As we were in the pool Paige suddenly points to the instructor, "Jo!". The instructor told us her name a week and a half ago, and I briefly mentioned to Paige in the morning that we would be seeing her at the pool. She obviously completely understood me and remembered.

4. I asked Paige who would be coming to visit in 9 days. "James....and Booze (Jen). Ya...Booze plane".

She's also starting to understand sequences of events. Yesterday she wanted me to put a diaper on her baby, but I was trying to get her to come downstairs for breakfast. I told her first breakfast, then diaper. As soon as we came back upstairs she went straight to the diaper.

In addition to remembering all of these things, Paige talked non-stop all day long, right through when she was supposed to be napping until she finally crashed in her stroller on our walk. I have never heard her chatting away so much. While we were at the grocery store she suddenly squealed with delight when she saw a display of "Bear Paw" cookies while we were waiting in line. She wasn't excited about the actual food, but rather the different colours of the boxes. As we waited in line she recited the colours of the boxes: "Yellow, mm HMM, blue, mmHMM, ya red, mmHMM. purple mmHMM. She tends to tack a lot of "ya"s in front of her words, and often an "mmHMM" after.